I recently recorded a far-reaching conversation with @sunraysunray.bsky.social—founding editor of @jacobinmag.bsky.social—about the past, present, and future of the socialist project. I’m pleased to be able to able to share it with all in full. www.lukewsavage.com/p/time-for-s...

For the Perspectives Journal Podcast: @lukewsavage.bsky.social talks to @sunraysunray.bsky.social on what a modern 21st century socialism should look like. What’s worked, what’s failed & what comes next? Tune in on all major podcast platforms. 🎧 perspectivesjournal.ca/socialism-after-capitalism/

Inspired by a weird baseball broadcast I watched recently, I wrote about the insidious way sports betting is commodifying games. If every play is just a potential site of monetization, we lose something pretty fundamental about the experience of watching and enjoying sports.

The absurd meltdown over food price caps in Britain is yet another case study in decrepit market dogmas that simply refuse to die. www.lukewsavage.com/p/whos-afrai...

Inspired by a weird baseball broadcast I watched recently, I wrote about the insidious way sports betting is commodifying games. If every play is just a potential site of monetization, we lose something pretty fundamental about the experience of watching and enjoying sports.

Grateful to my friends at @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to write about the state of the Canadian left for an international audience.

Right wing opposition to the idea of a shorter working week reveals something critical about the reactionary imagination — my latest for Substack.

Starmerism, the grand finale www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-this-th...

Starmerism, the grand finale www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-this-th...

“But in this case especially, the obsessive privileging of shareholder returns at the expense of all else makes even the relatively straightforward business of making & serving coffee irrational & inefficient.” - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

Mark Carney compares his sovereign wealth fund to Norway’s. Canadians are smart enough to see it’s not the same | #Opinion

In honour of the late, great Pete Seeger's birthday last weekend, I've decided to unlock this essay from last year about him, Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, and why'll always need them both.

I'm in today's Star with a piece on the Canadian government's "sovereign wealth fund", which is not in fact a sovereign wealth fund at all. Mark Carney may be talking like a Nordic social democrat but he is governing like a Thatcherite. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Yes! "Fundamentally, this is a government that sees private profit as synonymous with the common good and believes that safeguarding the interests of corporate investors should be the preeminent concern of public policy," writes @lukewsavage.bsky.social. #CdnPoli 🎁 www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

"What he’s actually announced is much closer to a rebranding of the Trudeau government’s private infrastructure bank than a sovereign wealth fund in the mould of Norway’s," writes @lukewsavage.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #cdnpoli

Oh my goodness, yes.

As an addendum to my recent piece on work and AI, here’s a followup with some interesting new insights generously shared with me by @doctorow.pluralistic.net. That AI-driven annihilation of trucking jobs we've heard so much about? Yeah, it's not really happening...

As I said when I called in to @lukewsavage.bsky.social and @willsloanesq.bsky.social's pod earlier this year, S60 -- a perverse favorite of mine -- is the archetypal "mind palace" artwork, wherein an artist, perhaps to their detriment, gets to plug a cord straight into their brain, no filter.

At long last, I have heeded the people's calls and addressed the all-important question of why the Moon deserves socialism www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-case-f...

“This trajectory has had the effect of turning economics into a value-free science: something distillable to a series of generalised laws of propositions that often leaves more fundamental questions unexamined.” After political economy - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

Fun evening on Wednesday. Bhaskar and I also recorded a much longer conversation I'll look forward to sharing with you all soon. Link to the lecture and Q&A in the first reply.

At long last, I have heeded the people's calls and addressed the all-important question of why the Moon deserves socialism www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-case-f...

This evening, @jacobin founder @sunraysunray will be delivering this year's lecture in honour of the late, great Professor Ellen Wood. I'll be in conversation with him afterward and, though tickets are sold out, the whole event will be live here. Tune in if you can! www.youtube.com/live/ur2cpIc...

This evening, @jacobin founder @sunraysunray will be delivering this year's lecture in honour of the late, great Professor Ellen Wood. I'll be in conversation with him afterward and, though tickets are sold out, the whole event will be live here. Tune in if you can! www.youtube.com/live/ur2cpIc...

Really interesting piece on left-wing populism and Avi Lewis from @lukewsavage.bsky.social. It's paywalled, but he has a great sale on right now. #CdnPoli

Canada's political soil provides particularly fertile ground for left wing populism. To a greater extent than at any other point in my adult life, the Liberals and Conservatives have ideologically converged & are mostly fighting over the aesthetics of their shared agenda.

@lukewsavage.bsky.social clear eyed insight of the state of Canada’s political landscape. This should be what msm paying for and publishing.

Canada's political soil provides particularly fertile ground for left wing populism. To a greater extent than at any other point in my adult life, the Liberals and Conservatives have ideologically converged & are mostly fighting over the aesthetics of their shared agenda.

Sure, Brian. The jealous, woke mob took the premier's plane away.

11 years ago today

In light of Louis Theroux's new manosphere doc — which is about misogyny, obviously, but also shows us the insanities of neoliberal selfhood — I've decided to unlock this one. tl;dr influencer hustle & grind bullshit is symptomatic of deep moral rot. www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-wastel...

Over the years, I've learned to interpret what liberal elites say cryptically because they ultimately believe the real work of politics belongs to a small, savvy few. This means they're often saying different things to different audiences simultaneously. www.lukewsavage.com/p/our-straus...

Getting the itch to read Ulysses again after hearing @lukewsavage.bsky.social talk about it. My tip to anyone that hasn’t (which is ridiculous) but absolutely go to Dublin after and just walk around. It will give you even more a sense of awe about Joyce’s ability to create a living space in word.

Barack Obama was fond of invoking an abstract unity that was rhetorically elegant but fundamentally hollow. Mamdani is doing something quite different: engaging people through the prism of their own traditions in a moral language universalist in its implications. Link below ↓

Left wing party elects left wing leader. Meltdown ensues. www.lukewsavage.com/p/so-it-begins

Left wing party elects left wing leader. Meltdown ensues. www.lukewsavage.com/p/so-it-begins

Thoughts on revisiting Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry recently. willsloan.substack.com/p/taste-of-c...

“In any case, Sunstein’s defense of liberalism is about as convincing as his argument that it’s okay to be friends with war criminals because they happen to like the book you wrote about Star Wars.” - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

Today's piece is a little different www.lukewsavage.com/p/a-train-ri...

After its worst election result ever, the NDP is at a crossroads. Whoever wins the leadership race faces a tough task: rebuilding the party and proving it’s a clear alternative for Canadians. @jeyantvo.bsky.social talks with @lobbygrl.bsky.social (Wright Strategies) & @lukewsavage.bsky.social.

Last night I had the pleasure of appearing on TVO’s The Rundown to talk about the NDP leadership race. FWIW, I think one of the fault lines in the race has been about political language and whether consultant-speak has maybe gone a bit overboard. On this point, well, opinions differ.

*opens box* Oh it's just neoliberalism again

For all the talk of a US-style two party system, the essence of Mark Carney's political project has more in common with Emmanuel Macron's: a right-leaning, technocratic brand of nationalism built around a powerful executive at its centre. www.lukewsavage.com/p/mark-carne...

For all the talk of a US-style two party system, the essence of Mark Carney's political project has more in common with Emmanuel Macron's: a right-leaning, technocratic brand of nationalism built around a powerful executive at its centre. www.lukewsavage.com/p/mark-carne...

“Hierarchical societies do not have a shared culture so much as a prescribed one, their values & symbols flowing from top to bottom & from rulers to ruled. Britain today remains a deeply hierarchical country.” - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

Britain’s 2017 general election result repudiated decades of elite consensus wisdom about political strategy and the savvy genius of centrist triangulation. Which is why many pundits and operatives would rather act like 2017 never took place. www.lukewsavage.com/p/2017-did-n...

Never in the whole of human history has so much technology and capital been invested in mass entertainment. Never in the whole of human history has mass entertainment been so insipidly bad. www.lukewsavage.com/p/empire-of-...

Never in the whole of human history has so much technology and capital been invested in mass entertainment. Never in the whole of human history has mass entertainment been so insipidly bad. www.lukewsavage.com/p/empire-of-...

Ed Broadbent's words spoken throughout his career are gems. Never more so than now as we face the need to speak out against illegal foreign actions in other countries. He eloquently protested U.S. actions in Latin America long ago and his words pertain well to actions in the Middle East now.